4th November 2025
The Swan got a mention in ‘The House’ this week! Windsor MP Jack Rankin was speaking about the pressure on hospitality businesses at the moment and the importance of supporting our pubs as community spaces. Giving The Swan as a great example of what pubs can do for their local community, he gave a shout-out to Micky and many of our clubs and events! A clip from the debate can be found here if you didn’t see it.
Hansard transcript is here:
“That was evidenced in my most recent Best Pub competition. Over 32 pubs were put forward from across the constituency, and hundreds of my constituents voted. It is only right to give special mention to the winner, The Swan in Clewer village, which is a great example of a community-led pub. I will not have time to talk about everything that makes The Swan special, but it has the Green Room school for special needs pupils, the Windsor cycle hub, a Chatter and Natter to tackle loneliness and social isolation, board games, the Stitch Gang for knitters, and a dog walkers’ group. However, the landlord, Mickey Foden-Andrews, whom I have met multiple times, stressed that while The Swan is well loved and used by the whole community, it is feeling all the pressures on our treasured pub industry, including from increased VAT, beer duty, business rates and now the extended producer responsibility tax.”
Hansard website